This Time
Navigating Life's Turmoil: Brightside's Reflections in 'This Time'
Lyrics
Oh, some years, some months, and some days
Reflecting on the passage of time, acknowledging the difficulty of certain periods.
Are hard to take
Acknowledging that some periods are challenging to endure.
Yeah, some laughs, some smiles, and some games
Recognizing that genuine laughter, smiles, and enjoyable moments can be challenging to simulate or fake.
Are hard to fake
Highlighting the difficulty of pretending or putting on a facade in certain situations.
Agitation, need for information
Describing symptoms of emotional turmoil, such as agitation, heightened senses, loss of sleep, and decreased appetite.
Obsessions, heightened senses
-Loss of sleep, decreased appetite
-You could keep trying
Questioning the meaning and truth in challenging moments, emphasizing the helplessness in certain situations.
But what's the meaning?
-What's the truth?
-And in a moment of nothing
-There's nothing for you to do
-Things keep coming back to the one
Referencing a return to a specific thought or person after a prolonged absence.
I haven't been here in oh so many nights
-In looking to the future you always forget the start
Reflecting on the tendency to overlook the beginning while focusing on the future, leading to personal disintegration.
The middle kind of takes you apart
-There's nothing left of you to stay
-Oh, some years, some months, and some days
Reiterating the difficulty of enduring certain periods and the challenge of making certain promises.
Are hard to take
-Now we find when it's time that
-Some promises are hard to make
-To create something out of passion for your craft
Emphasizing the personal nature of creative expression and the autonomy of the creator in deciding the fate of their work.
Is wholly a personal experience
-And nobody has the right to tell you
-What to do with your product
-Difficulty concentrating
Describing symptoms of emotional distress, including difficulty concentrating, morbid thoughts, and loss of interest in once enjoyable activities.
Morbid thoughts or actions
-No interest in activities that you once enjoyed
-Just to make it easier never take it to heart
Advising against taking things too personally, deflecting blame, and maintaining personal boundaries.
So you could try to pin on me anything that you want
-I could become invisible
Contemplating the idea of becoming invisible or hiding emotional scars, acknowledging that such actions won't erase the pain.
You could cover the scars
-And even if we took it that far
-It wouldn't make it go away
-And it's trial, and it's error, but that's life
Acknowledging life as a series of trials and errors, suggesting that the passage of time is not wasted and recognizing the difficulty of breaking certain habits.
So all of this time was not a waste
-To swear that I wouldn't die most every night
-You know some habits are so hard to break
-(No, don't change your mind
Encouraging resilience and openness to change, while recognizing the challenge of altering ingrained habits.
Oh, change your mind)
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